The Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show

What do we have here then? Oh just some insanely early WKCR action from back when the show was in it's infant stages and Stretch was still going by the name of DJ Skinny Bones...

(quality isn't great for the first few minutes but settles down by the time the music starts)

Although tons of tapes from the duo's 8 year run have been posted online these sessions from 1990 have proved hard to come by. Even Stretch and Bob themselves have been asking for them, so this was quite a find.

Shout out to Grime & Lime as this was buried in amongst all the Westwood tapes I was given and big up S&B guru Craig at Random Rap Radio for getting his Columbo on and piecing together enough info to the point where we could establish a date (which wasn't on the tape but we're 99% sure is correct). There's no guests on here unfortunately but the tracklist is nuts and it's a great snapshot of the embryonic stages of something that would be go on to be iconic.

Tracklist

EPMD ft LL Cool J - Rampage

KMD - Peachfuzz

Freshco - Now Ya Know

Jungle Brothers - In Dayz To Come

Main Source - Lookin At The Front Door

Eric B & Rakim - Run For Cover

Gang Starr - Just To Get A Rep

Three Times Dope - No Words

talk break

Kool G Rap & DJ Polo - Wanted Dead Or Alive

NWA - 100 Miles And Runnin

Nice & Smooth - Dope Not Hype

Master Ace - Letter To The Better

talk break

Ultramagnetic MCs - Feelin It

BDP live in Japan

MC Shan - The Bridge

Grandaddy IU - Something New

Tragedy & Craig G - Live And Direct From The House Of Hits

Jazzy Jay - Cold Chillin In The Spot

Run DMC - The Ave

Co-incidentally, part of this show was also captured in this clip, which in turn was used in the Radio That Changed Lives documentary.

About The Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show

The Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show ran from 1990 through 1998 on Columbia University's WKCR. In 1998, it was named the "Best Hip Hop Radio Show of All Time"
by The Source magazine. A documentary about the show's impact on hip-hop titled Stretch and Bobbito: Radio That Changed Lives was released in 2015. Stretch and Bobbito can currently be heard on the NPR podcast What's Good with Stretch & Bobbito.

These are three albums that were released closest in time to this show.

November 20, 1990Salt-n-Pepa: A Blitz of Salt-n-Pepa Hits: The Hits Remixed

November 29, 1990This episode

December 4, 1990Paris: The Devil Made Me Do It

December 4, 1990Brand Nubian: One for All

About the Archive

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